The door of no return
https://library.prcvi.org/link/catalog32789
Alexander, Kwame.
2022.
Grades: 05, 06, 07, 08, 09.
- Material Type
- Large Print
- Author
- Alexander, Kwame
- Publisher
- Thorndike Press
- Date Published
- 2022
- Curriculum Area
- Language Arts
- Material Type
- Large Print
- Collation
- 1 volume : 16 point font : hardcover ; 22 cm
- Pages
- 459 pages
- ISBN
- 9798885783897
- Abstract
- 11-year-old Kofi Offin dreams of water. Its mysterious, immersive quality. The rich, earthy scent of the current. The clearness, its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets. Kofi has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, in the village where he lives. He loves these things above all else: his family, the fireside tales of his father's father, a girl named Ama, and, of course, swimming. Some say he moves like a minnow, not just an ordinary boy so he's hoping to finally prove himself in front of Ama and his friends in a swimming contest against his older, stronger cousin. But before this can take place, a festival comes to the villages of Upper and Lower Kwanta and Kofi's brother is chosen to represent Upper Kwanta in the wrestling contest.The match is over before it has barely begun, when the unthinkable--a sudden death--occurs. As his world turns upside down, Kofi soon ends up in a fight for his life, on a harrowing journey across land and sea, and away from everything he loves.